Hanwha Securities to Tokenize Stocks and Bonds on Avalanche (AVAX)

Hanwha Securities Chooses Avalanche

Hanwha Investment & Securities, the brokerage arm of one of South Korea's five largest conglomerates, is building a tokenization platform designed to move traditional assets — stocks and bonds among them — onto public blockchain rails, with dapp-rich Avalanche (AVAX) serving as the underlying network. The platform aims to let conventional securities trade and settle in onchain markets, positioning the chain as the connective tissue between institutional finance and distributed ledgers. Avalanche confirmed the collaboration in a post on its official X account on September 7, describing the effort as Hanwha's bid to carry traditional assets into global onchain markets. Tokenization, in this context, means recording rights to real-world assets such as equities and debt on a distributed ledger, where they can be issued, tracked and transferred programmatically. The timing is not incidental: South Korea's Financial Services Commission published a roadmap on September 4 laying out a phased tokenization of existing securities, including stocks, bonds and funds. The associated amended legislation is scheduled to take effect on February 4, 2027, with the first stage covering privately placed money market funds for institutional investors, bonds, and unlisted equities held through trusts.

post on its official X accounthttps://x.com/avax/status/2096943988116713852?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Visa Bridges Lending and Settlement

Separately, payments giant Visa announced on Tuesday that it is wiring its settlement network into blockchain-based credit infrastructure, giving stablecoin-linked card programs and fintechs a new route to working capital. Lenders will be able to combine VisaNet settlement data with onchain transaction records to assess a payment business's performance and set financing terms — effectively delivering trusted payment data to blockchain oracle-style credit systems that underwrite loans automatically. Visa highlighted Credit Coop, an onchain protocol that extends credit lines to businesses, as an early model: it uses smart contracts to automate funding, collateral management and repayment, with loans backed by settlement receivables and repaid from incoming funds. The company said this model has financed more than $2.5 billion in cumulative settlement volume since 2023, with zero defaults across more than 3,000 borrowing events and 9,000 repayments. “We're seeing how trusted payment data and onchain technologies can work together to unlock new forms of liquidity,” said Rubail Birwadker, Visa's global head of growth products and partnerships. Visa also noted that onchain lending protocols have processed over $694 billion in stablecoin loans since 2020, per its analytics dashboard.

The lending push sits on top of a fast-expanding stablecoin franchise. More than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs now run on Visa's network, with payment volume up nearly 200% year over year, while stablecoin settlement volume has climbed more than 15-fold to an annualized rate above $20 billion — up from the $7 billion rate disclosed in April, when Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo joined the settlement program, bringing the total to nine chains. In July, Visa launched a stablecoin platform for banks and fintechs combining issuance, wallets, transfers and treasury functions, and management said on the fiscal third-quarter earnings call that the company is investing in every layer of the stablecoin stack, from blockchains to applications. Visa has also joined the OpenStandard consortium, which plans an OpenUSD stablecoin and counts Stripe among more than 140 participating businesses. The broader market backdrop supports the momentum: adjusted stablecoin transaction volume hit a record $1.79 trillion in June, with the trailing 30 days near $1.2 trillion, according to Visa's own analytics dashboard. Readers tracking the market in real time can follow live spot and futures prices on Bybit.

Toward Onchain Capital Markets

Read together, the two stories mark the same inflection from pilot to production. Visa is financing payment settlement with onchain credit, while Hanwha is moving equities and bonds themselves onto a public network — institutional territory long occupied by enterprise-focused chains such as Hedera (HBAR). The primary record matters here: Avalanche's official announcement states Hanwha will use the network as the bridge between institutional finance and blockchain, a claim backed by Korea's phased regulatory roadmap. Regulated tokenization of existing securities also stands apart from unvetted token launches where rug pull exit scams remain common — a distinction that should accelerate institutional comfort as the 2027 effective date approaches.